John McCain’s refusal to disavow Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has prompted a biting attack from the Democratic candidate for his U.S. Senate seat.
Although McCain, R-Ariz., last year engaged in a bruising public feud with Trump, the celebrity billionaire who just swept up seven victories on Super Tuesday in what is looking like an unstoppable push to the 2016 GOP nomination, he so far has refused to say he wouldn’t support Trump if he becomes the party’s standard bearer.
McCain has been dogged by questions from reporters about Trump, and earlier this week Ann Kirkpatrick, the U.S. representative from Flagstaff who is running for his seat, released a biting online ad splicing McCain’s continued expressions of support with Trump’s most controversial remarks.
In an exchange Monday broadcast by NPR, McCain seemed exasperated by the continuing media questions about Trump.
“Hello? I said, ‘I. Support. The. Nominee,'” McCain said.
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